Picture collection of my time in India

This is a
collection of photos made during my stay in India. The
pictures are organised in some index pages where you can
get a larger version by clicking on the
thumbmail-pictures. At the beginning I was taking lots of
pictures of street scenes trying to capture the look and
feel of Indian roads and cities. There are some pictures
from weddings and a wedding reception as well as pictures
of some of the favorite holiday resorts of Indians (ooty
and Courtrallam). If you think there are some pictures
missing for temples or other occasions -- it might be on
color slide instead of digital or I didn't take
photographs at all since Hindu people are not very fond of
beeing photographed during worship and it was difficult
enough for Chitra to get me into the inner parts of the
temples (Madurai).

I just added
some new pictures from the Durgapuja which was organised
in Kalpakkam itself and from the diwali (deepawali)
festival in Madurai. Deepawali, the festival of light, is
some mix of going shopping, making presents and
fireworks. The main festival is in the family circle and
special food is prepared during the night.

Flug nach Indien

Madras (Wedding reception)

Madurai

Trivandrum

Ooti

Courtrallam

Wedding Ceremony

Pondicherry

Mahabalipuram

Durga Puja

Diwali (Deepawali) in Madurai

Dakshinchitra

My parents visited me in November and we spent a week
traveling around south India (Mysore, Cochin, Madurai)
and then my parents took me along on a package tour in
North India (Delhi, Jaipur, Agra). In January Monika and
Thorsten came from Germany and we traveled around South
India (Cochin, the southernmost point at Kanyakumari,
Courtrallam, Madurai.

Suedindientour

Nordindien

Moni in Kalpakkam

Suedtour mit Moni und Thorsten

In December/January I was to two conferences, one in
Chandigarh and another one in Calcutta. From that trip I
have some photos too. For the stop over in Bhubaneswar
Mohanty invited me to his families place. We roamed
around to see all the Orissan stlye temples, old Jain
caves and the zoo.

In March the Holi festival is celebrated all over
India, but especially in the north. Kalpakkam has a small
community of north Indians who are celebrating as well and
I cought some on photos.

Chandigarh

Calcutta

Bhubaneswar

Holi in Kalpakkam

Some more Pictures which I collected over a longer
time. The Trichytrip was sitting on my harddrive without
comment for a long time now, so here are at least the
pictures. All pictures from Kalpakkam and close by are now
down here (some new ones).